Little Akaloa is a small settlement and bay on Banks Peninsula, in the South Island of

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. The settlement is sited at the end of the bay, a long, finger-shaped indentation in the northeastern coast of the peninsula, some southeast of

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and north of the near-namesake town of Akaroa. A small long stream enters the bay at the settlement. The names of both Akaroa and Little Akaloa mean ''long harbour'' in the southern dialect of Māori.

Demographics

Little Akaloa covers . It is part of the larger Eastern Bays-Banks Peninsula statistical area. Little Akaloa had a population of 9 at the

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, unchanged since the 2013 census and the

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., but a significant drop from its earlier population. ''Wise's New Zealand guide'' reported a population of 63 in 1969.'Wise's New Zealand guide'' (1969) Dunedin: H. Wise & Co. p. 145.

References

Banks Peninsula Bays of Canterbury, New Zealand Populated places in Canterbury, New Zealand {{CanterburyNZ-geo-stub